...condemned sin in the flesh, came filled with holy love for sinners. He bore with their contradiction. ' When he was reviled, he reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not ; hut committed himself to him that judgeth uprightly.' He prayed for his murderers...

...spirit. The aversion, too, the fear,—if not contempt and Study the character of Jesus. Mark how " when he was reviled, he reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously,—by whose stripes ye were healed."...

...ever be our reflection in the hour of attack, that to be like Christ we must not resist evil. "He was led as a lamb, to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." He passed meekly through torrents of abuse. It poured in upon him wave after wave, but...

...(Heb. x. 7), even though that will involved humiliation, suffering unparalleled, and death. " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth." Upon Him was laid the iniquity of many; yea, the iniquity of all who have, or do, or shall...

...tried at the judgment hall; or if you please we will call it the tyrant's hull, and here we behold him led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. O blessed object! now in the depths of human degradation, in order to work out his dear...

...Christ Jesus, and which, in his holy character, shone out in all the glory of its perfection. " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his m >uth." When the soul prospers, patience enters into the temper, and forms the habits of the mind,...

...repeat the inspired declaration of the apostle Peter ; " He did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : when he was reviled, he reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously " (1 Peter ii. 22, 23). Nevertheless,...

...slaughter, and as a sheep before the shearers is dumb, so opened he not his mouth ;' Isa. liii. 7. ' for when he was reviled, he reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth rightly;' 1 Pet. ii. 23. So that the ground...

...suffered for us, leaving us an example that we cc2 THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST. should follow his steps ; when he was reviled, he reviled not again ; when he suffered he threatened not. He deeply felt indeed every affliction, as appears from his intense prayers during...

...condemned sin in the flesh, came filled with holy love for sinners. He bore with their contradiction. " When he was reviled, he reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth uprightly." He prayed for his murderers,...